Al Jazeera — Obama declares Venezuela a national security threat

"These emergency resolutions are used by the North American empire every time they are going to attack a country. They say they feel threatened. What weapons do we possibly have to threaten the United States?" [head of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello] said.. 

Enquiring minds would like to know.

"These types of measures only help to galvanise us. All they do is give the Veneuzlean people an increased consciousness. These are only threats from an empire that has power, but that lacks scruples," [Cabello] added.

The president goes off the rails? Or maybe the question is when dd the president went off the rails. Or was he off the rails from the get-go? (Bruce Bartlett, Obama Is a, American Conservative, Oct. 21, 2014)

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Obama declares Venezuela a national security threat

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